It emerged yesterday that Romanians and Bulgarians were taking advantage of David Cameron’s £1.5billion flagship scheme.

Agency Extern Job, based in Transylvania, said it was in the process of placing 50 Romanians into apprenticeships in Britain.

An advert by the firm on Romanian employment websites offers apprenticeships with Marriott and Hilton hotels, Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants and Chelsea FC.

Last night Tory MP Nigel Mills blasted the development. He said: “Apprenticeships are meant to be for training our own young people to have the skills they need in their working lives, not trying to encourage migrants to come from overseas and effectively subsidise their jobs as well.”

“pprenticeships are meant to be for training our own young people to have the skills they need in their working lives, not trying to encourage migrants to come from overseas and effectively subsidise their jobs as well”

Tory MP Nigel Mills

The scheme was launched last year as part of the Prime Minister’s pledge to “deal with the scourge of youth unemployment.”

But Razvan Vasiliu, the owner of Extern Job, said it was a very attractive prospect for foreigners.